• FreeAdvice has a new Terms of Service and Privacy Policy, effective May 25, 2018.
    By continuing to use this site, you are consenting to our Terms of Service and use of cookies.

Wife Steals Customer's Car from Husband's Business

Accident - Bankruptcy - Criminal Law / DUI - Business - Consumer - Employment - Family - Immigration - Real Estate - Tax - Traffic - Wills   Please click a topic or scroll down for more.

missbee2

Junior Member
What is the name of your state (only U.S. law)? MS

I have enough problems with my EX and our custody issues and NOW my current (filed for divorce but not final yet) wife has taken off in a customer's car from my auto repair business and won't bring it back.

The car was brought in for repairs a couple of months ago and I was about to have to file an abandoned car claim since I can't get the owner on the phone and she hasn't come by to pay and pick it up.

The police say that in my state that a wife can't be accused of "stealing" from her husband and that the owner of the vehicle would have to press charges of theft against her.

She is in the next county staying at the home of her brother, a police officer, in that county which makes me very leary of heading over there and cranking up the car even if I could find it which I don't know if I could. They are probably not going to park it in her brother's driveway anyway, right?

Especially since he coached her that anything she takes from her husband is not theft.

The police here weren't much help, the guy who holds the insurance on my shop didn't offer any help other than if she goes out and runs into somebody and hurts them it could come back on me AND that it wasn't going to look good on my shop which I don't need since I'm just hanging on financially.

I was wondering if since I was operating as an LLC Corp if the law might be different?

I don't know what to do or if I have any options whatsoever!
 


davew128

Senior Member
What's an LLC Corp?

That said, if your BUSINESS was operating as an LLC OR a CORP, then presumably the BUSINESS was responsible for the storage of the vehicle not you, so she stole the vehicle from the BUSINESS not you.

More to the point, it sounds like you didn't explain it well enough to the police. The idea that one spouse cannot legally steal from another is beyond preposterous. If she took your credit card without authorization and charged it up, would they not prosecute?
 

Find the Right Lawyer for Your Legal Issue!

Fast, Free, and Confidential
data-ad-format="auto">
Top